Burritos and tacos are essentially the same thing, except that one is wide open and spills so much that half of the taco innards are on the plate by the end of the meal. Also, even the most comfortable way to eat a taco requires you to turn your head a full 45 degrees. Burritos, on the other hand, can have the same contents (maybe even more since you don't have to worry about them overflowing like with tacos), but with less mess and contortion. And, you can dip them without dropping that chunk of beef in it that everyone carefully avoids for the rest of the meal.

**Burritos are absolutely better than tacos** As a former professional burrito maker (fast food crew member), this is a topic on which I can provide personal, anecdotal input. Burritos are most certainly better than tacos. Contrary to what you might expect, tacos are the root of significantly more complaint because customers have entirely unreasonable expectations of it. Tacos aren't massive: fill it to the appropriate level, and you can be sure you'll be accused of stinginess. If you are obliging and generous, it'll be because it was too full and they've dropped the contents over themselves as it is not structurally sound in the same way that a burrito is. If you're particularly unlucky, they'll demand the cost of dry cleaning. More to the point, burritos are incredibly filling. Again, customer complaints factor in. Grumbles and gripes about portion sizes are generally allayed when it becomes clear that 50g of beans; 100g of rice, 90g of beef and 25g of cheese turns out to be actually quite massive. You can't argue with your eyeballs, as hard as some may try. Finally; having thoroughly sampled my own supply, I can safely confirm that they are beyond a shadow of a doubt the superior foodstuff.

**When it comes to eating them, tacos are a lot less messy, and taste better too.** Burritos on the other hand, are more difficult to eat due to the huge size of them- it's near impossible to fit the whole thing in your mouth, and if you take normal sized bites, you make awkwardly placed holes in the tortilla (from which fillings begin to spill out of if you don't turn it around fast enough). Tacos are also less messy because hard-shell tacos exist; with the crunchy maize shell, you can fill the whole taco without having to worry about how much weight it can take. On the other hand, the fragile tortilla of burritos can only take so much filling without tearing, and hard-shell burritos do not yet exist. The way tacos look is also much more pleasing than burritos. With burritos, you don't know what you're getting until you bite into it, and on the outside, they're just plain tortilla wraps. However, with tacos, you get to see the delicious layers of filling before and as you eat them, and they just look great all lined up together at a party (they'd be more likely to catch your eye than a plate of beige burritos).

**TL;DR — Burritos and tacos shouldn't be compared** There is a false equivalence between tacos and burritos that sparks debates about taco or burrito supremacy. Yes, they each originated in Mexico (a vast country encompassing many cultures and cuisines) but it is unclear if they were _invented_ as different versions of the same thing, or completely separately. Additionally, the modern burrito is typically far more Americanized than the modern taco. The modern taco and burrito are, however, distinct entities with unique traits. While there _can_ be a crossover between the two, their optimal forms contain different ingredients. A modern burrito, for example, will almost always contain rice, beans, lettuce, and cheese along with a host of other ingredients in a flour tortilla. A modern taco, on the other hand, is typically much simpler, relying heavily on the core meat ingredient and salsa for its flavor profile, and is often served with a corn tortilla. Due to its fewer ingredients, the taco may have much stronger and more punchy flavors. Rarely, if ever, will you find a "burrito" with only two or three ingredients—it simply wouldn't make sense. To bring in a parallel, can bruschetta and pizza be made with the same ingredients, do they originate in the same place, and could you find them on the same menu? Certainly, but that does not mean they fulfill the same purpose culinarily or can be meaningfully compared as true alternatives to one another. The same can and should be said about tacos and burritos.